6th day of protest against pension reform in Marseille, France - by Denis Thaust / SOPA Images
French unions have called for a sixth day of action against the French government's pension reform which would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. The police estimate, for this 6th day, the number of demonstrators marching in the streets of Marseille at 30,000 and while the unions estimate it at 245,000. The Ministry of the Interior has reported 1.28 million demonstrators in the streets of France, while the unions claim more than 3.5 million.
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